Improvement in clod-fenders



. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT L. DIRST, OF SEWARD, ILLINOIS.

'IMPROVEMENT IN CLODFE`NDERS-l Specification forming part of LettersPatent No. 135,896, dated February 18, 1873.

shield may be set at any desired angle with the pl0w-beam, so as eitherto run parallel with lthe same or scrape the earth along to or from theplant, as may be desired, and at the same time fend the plant from thelarge clods that the plow might turn onto the saine.

Figure l is a perspective View of the de vice attached to a plow. Fig. 2is a perspective view of one of the fender-bars of the device. Fig. 3 isa perspective view of the device by means of which the shield isattached to the plow-beam; and Fig. 4 is a plan view on the top f theshield.

The shield or clod-fender is constructed of metal` or any suitablematerial in about the form shown in Fig. 1, only it may have any numberof fender-bars S desired, instead of two shown.

AThe shoe t terminates at its upper end in an elbow, c, as shown, whichatt-aches to the elbow `r, which attaches by means of a bolt to theplow-beam B, as shown in Fig. l. The vertical portion of the shoe a isfurnished with a slot, rc, extendingfrom Where the shoe touches theearth to the elbow c, which slot receives the forward ends of thefender-bars S S, as shown in said figure. Tle bars S S are held in placeby bolts passing through the transverse slots n through the shoe a, asshown.

It will be perceived that inasmuch as the fender-bals S rest upon theshoe a at the angles or offsets o, that by raising up the forward endsof the said bars in the slot rc, by means of loosening the bolts in theslot u passing through the same, the rear ends of the A said bars may beelevated or depressed at will, so they may be set at any distance apartfrom each other, so they will appearto radiate from a common center likethe spokes in a wheel, or may be arranged parallel with each other atany distance apart, by means of which any desired amount of earth may beallowed to fall between them next to the plant. Fig. 4-

shows more particularly the construction ofthe device in that regard.

The elbow c of the shoe c is furnished with transverse slots t, throughwhich pass the bolt m through the elbow i', by means of which they areattached to each other. The use ot" the slots t is to allow of anadjustment of the shoe a., so it will run parallel with the beam,

or at any other angle desired, as before stated, and for the purposedescribed.

The device may be attached taany kind of l a plow or cultivator, but'isdesigned to be used on corn ory cotton cultivators.

Claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

The shoe a having the slots a and t, in combination with the bentadjustable bars S, arranged as shown, whereby the spaces between thebars and the distance and angle from the i

